Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Country Pinwheel Quilt Card

While cleaning out my "creative" room....
I came across a BH&G quilt magazine that has over 100 ideas  for quilt blocks....
I put it in the "to go" pile....
 then decided it would be a wonderful reference for "quilt cards"....
When I saw that this week CAS-ual Fridays challenge was to use a black card base....
I decided to "make a quilt"....
I choose the "Country Pinwheel"....
it was a lot of paper piecing, but fun (except trying to keep it straight)....
the quilt cards are another great way to use scraps....

I made the second card I am showing first..(have I confused you...lol)
but wasn't in love with it, hence the quilt card...
I used some Zing embossing powder, as I have tons of it

and seem to forget to use it!!

7 comments:

Lisa said...

Both cards are gorgeous, Diane!! I love the look of the pinwheel quilt!! So creative and fabulous!! And the embossing on the second one is awesome!! Have a great day :)

Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

Christina said...

Both cards turned out beautifully, Diane! The pinwheel quilt is especially striking--I'm in awe of your meticulous paper piecing. Thanks for joining us this week at CAS-ual Fridays!

Ros Crawford said...

I think they are both lovely ... the black certainly makes for a striking effect ... and yep I keep promising my embossing powders that they can come out and play soon ...

Viv said...

Two lovely cards Diane :) Viv xx

Jenny said...

I love how you've taken the quilting idea to a papercraft design, such a striking pattern and colours :0)
Thanks for getting crafty with us at CASual Fridays :0)
Jenny x

Anonymous said...

Both cards are fab! Love the pinweheel/quilt like one and the embossing shows up beautifully on the second one:) Thanks for playing this week at CAS-ual Fridays!

Suzanne said...

How cool are these!? I love the quilted look of the first one. Thanks so very much for playing along at CAS-ual Fridays this week!